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Reds North?

Olmedo takes the place of Royce Clayton, who was designated for assignment. He'll serve as a utility man and could get some playing time at shortstop in place of John McDonald.

There is a team that could use Alex Gonzalez. Does anyone think Paul Janish could step in next year and be the starter in Cincinnati? If so, dealing Gonzalez (and his contract) could net us a near ready pitching prospect like Ricky Romero. What do you think?

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Originally Posted by Red Leader

From Rotoworld.com:

There is a team that could use Alex Gonzalez. Does anyone think Paul Janish could step in next year and be the starter in Cincinnati? If so, dealing Gonzalez (and his contract) could net us a near ready pitching prospect like Ricky Romero. What do you think?

Saves money and adds to the future...I'm in. It's not like Gonzalez is the difference between the playoffs and the basement.

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I don't really see how we can get rid of Gonzalez right now. Our middle infield depth at AAA and the majors is horrible. Keppinger could play SS but I'm sure how comfortable I am with him there every day. We also have Pedro Lopez when he gets back but I'm not sure about him either. To be honest I really don't know too much about Lopez or Keppinger's game as I haven't been able to watch the Reds too much this year living out of state.

And to address Janish I don't see how he could hit over .200 in the majors right now. Gonzalez gives us quite a bit more than that, especially with some of his success this year.

The only other good option to Gonzalez would be Brandon Phillips and why mess with him at 2b when he's doing fine.

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I'm fine with Gonzo. After this year he only has 2 years left on his deal and if youwant to trade him, there are teams that are always looking for good defense with a major league stick at SS. Let me clarify that last statement. I know that Gonzo isn't going to make anyone forget Larkin at the plate but you know what he can do whereas you have teams that take chances with 22 year olds out of the Dominican or wherever who are pretty slick with the glove but can't hit yet. Managers may want a little more security at SS even if he is a rental.

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Yeah, let me make it clear, I don't want to dump Gonzalez. I think he's a fine major league shortstop, I'm just trying to look around the team, and then the rest of the league to see what we have in place that other teams might want / need this offseason. SS is certainly a position that about 1/2 or more of the teams in the majors could afford to upgrade.

Having said that, that means that the Reds currently employ a player that is as good or better than 1/2 of the teams in MLB. I'm fine with keeping him, but if you've got someone near ready that you think can replace him, and can get a real nice return for him I think you should move him this offseason. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the Reds have that fallback option.

'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement

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I've seen Brian Bixler a lot here this season. He's a solid journeyman type ss , does a little of everything. But at 25 , before next season I get the feeling he's not going to be anything above average at best in the bigs .

He's the scrappy type , that I think some fans look at as being better than they really are.

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Riccardi said this week the Jays are happy with John McDonald as their SS. He didn't say that they were not looking for anyone else, but he made it clear that McDonald had won the job this year and they were giving hm the rest of the year to solidify it.

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